Workspace

The workspace refers to the working directory where Chevere is developed.

IDE

Chevere provides snippets and recommendation on extensions that goes better for development, this includes the provisioning IDE resources.

TIP

🧔🏾 The default IDE of choice is Visual Studio Code

Assets

All Visual Studio Code assets and settings are at the .vscode/ folder.

Extensions

This is a list of the essential extensions that I can recommend for using Visual Studio Code for developing Chevere.

• Psalm (PHP Static Analysis Linting Machine)
• Coverage Gutters
• PHP Intelephense
• PHP Namespace Resolver
• PHPUnit Test Explorer
• Run on Save

Template Snippets

Snippets in Visual Studio Code provide an easy way to define templates for code. It is a productivity tool that allows to rapidly cast source code just typing a keyword in the IDE.

Snippets provide this functionality for the IDE:

Note that for the example above, the header comment and strict_types declaration are automatically provided by the coding standard formatting.

Coding Standards Formatting

The coding standard is automatically implemented on save.

Testing

PHPUnit Test Explorer provides inline tools for code execution and reviewing. It allows to easily handle all tests.

Running tests

To run tests:

vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.xml

To run tests with code coverage report at ./build/coverage/html:

vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit-report.xml

To run filtered tests use the --filter option:

vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit-report.xml --filter ActionTest

Kindly check PHPUnit Documentation for all available options.

Code Coverage

Coverage Gutters provides visual feedback regarding covered lines right into the editor.